--- saint james <stjames@l...> wrote: --- saint james <stjames@l...> wrote: > Intrusting. Nice sound equipment, I am envious. > Could you clarify.... I am > assuming this is amplitude vs frequency and the 2 > plots are L(eft) and > R(ight) ? Could you explain "Cursor: 13350 Hz" and > "Frequancy: L=472.03 Hz > (A#4+21), R=795.99 Hz ? If this is boring please > bore me some more !
Dear James and co vocalisters,
for some of us this might not be boring, but I just wanted to warn the others.
Yes, the plots are left and right and the y axis is dB (lines are 10 dB), the x-axis is Hz (lines are 2,000 Hz). The cursor position is just a dB/hz reading of the point where the cursor was positioned, so does not have a meaning here. The frequencies (both for Blochwitz and me) have been calculated by CoolEdit, but are obviously wrong.
In my experience, as soon as you add accompaniment, the frequency calculation is not reliable anymore. In light registered tones, it can also generate a reading that is double as high as the frequency you hear. When I record my voice without accompaniment, it is mostly accurate. I use CoolEdit to edit wave files, so I have been using the frequency analysis from time to time in the past. My Cd toaster program (WinonCd) also has a frequency analysis plug in, which is even nicer (I think they bought it from Steinberg/Cubase), but if you change the graphs to black and white (as I had to do to make the attachments small) they look muddy.
I once used it to graph high notes of a soprano that had a huge, but for higher notes very grindy sound (it sounded very distorted; like a bad stereo set playing much too loud). The graphs did not show a nice spectrum of harmonics, that slowly falls off, like in the case of Blochwitz and me, but a graph that was crowded with lots of noise above 4 kHz.
Some microphones (large condensor microphonse)are designed to record such a voice with less of that grinding sound. If you listen closely the Jessye Norman's 'Vier letzte Lieder' recording (at least to the Eastern German one I have) you can hear they have just filtered out that sound at some high notes, by using a different channel mix, all of a sudden.
Recently I compared a large condensor microphone with the microphones I now have, using my own voice. I decided to buy the ones I now have: they record my voice clearer, brighter and more detailed, while the voice still sounds warm; in general, well produced tones sounded better. (And I want to hear the ugly tones as ugly as they are!) But the differences were not that big, in my case.
Best greetings,
Dre
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